the russians are really good at this. they understand in some ways better than most american citizens do how an open society works, how democracies work. the difference with mroscow is they will take advantage of that. despite the fact there s no such thing as free speech in moscow. there is in places like washington and missouri and the united states. they take great advantage of that. there s an old soviet propaganda word for people like running the stations. in russian it s usef ful idiots. they are people who the russians know how to manipulate and leverage and pay for their services. that s what s going on here. is this something of a relic of the cold war, soviet union, russians figuring out ways to infiltrate their ideology into the u.s. psyche or try? sure. in one sense, that s true. the russians now have a whole bunch of ways they can get